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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-31
Household Hints.

Milk tosst-Slice stale bread thin. toast
to delicate brown, lay in dish: mall a
pound of butter in pint of new milk and
pour over the toast.
Buttered toast-Toast stale bread to a
delicate brown, pip in boiling water con-
tanning little salt, spread with butter and
set IN the oven.
Ham toast-Mince some boiled ham very
fine, STIR in pint OF cream, with pepper,
mustard, butter, and two eggs; boil aud
pour over nicely Drowned toast. Set in the
oven to dry.
French toast-Beat three eggs, add pint
of sweet milk and pinch of salt. Cut in
slices an inch thick loaf of stale bread,
dip in the egg, fry in hot butter, sprinkle
with sugar and grated nutmeg.
Sardine toast-Place with some oil out of
the box in a covered jar a dozen sardines;
OF bread; shake cayenne pepper over them
and squeeze few drops of lemon juice
over. Eat hot.
Apple toast.-From slices OF dry bread
cut round cakes, spread with butter, then
cover with slices OF tart, ripe apples,
sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and bits of
butter. Serve hot with cream sweetened
and Favored with nutmeg.
Oyster toast.-Boil one cup of oyster liq-
uor with half cup of cream, tablespoon
OF butter, pepper and salt; pour over some
nicely toasted bread and set in the oven
five minutes; then lay broiled oysters on
the slices OF toast and serve hot.
German toast.-Cut In thin slices a loaf
of bread, soak half an hour in sweet milk
take out the bread, beat two eggs, a small
teaspoonful OF butter, q tablesp Jonful of
corn starch in milk, dip the slices of bread
r Wi cTroQ
cinnamon.
A good tea cake that dyspeptic can eat
without injury, if cold.-One cup of sugar,
one egg, half cupful of sour cream, the
same Of sweet milk, a small teas Doouful
of soda, little salt and nutmeg. Bake an
hour before tea time, so that the cake may
have time to cool.
Bombay toast-Take one ounce of anchov-
les, wash bone and pound in a mortar
with one ounce OF fresh butter till reduced
to q paste; melt in a saucepan, add the
beaten yolk of two eggs and pepper and
salt to taste, and spread the mixture on
some slices Of nicely toasted bread. Serve
very hot.
Green corn omelet-Grate the corn from
twelve ears of boiled corn, beat up five
eggs, three spoonfulls of -four, two-thirds
OF a cup of sweet milk to make batter,
stir in the corn and salt to suit taste. Set
in hot oven to brown, fur it is not easy to
turn them.
Cream toast-Toast slices OF thin bread,
lay in covered dish and pour boiling wa
ter over them; pour the water off and let
drain. Put one pint of rich, sweet cream
on the stove in q quart cup, and three
tablespoons of butter, two beaten egg5 and
a tablespoon of corn starch let it boil and
pour over the toast.
Indian custard pudding-Two quarts oil
new milk, one cupful of fine Inaian meal.
one cupful of molasses or sugar if preferred.
Heat the milk to the boiling point, reserv.
ing little cold 10 mix with the meal, and
one beaten egg, which stir into the milk
while hot; add the salt, spice and sweeten.
ing. Bake two hours or mole in q slow
oven.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-31
bseswax about sle,OOO,O OO.-Amsrioan Bee

beeswax about Sic, 1000, OOO. -Amsrican Bee
Journal.
No better use can be made OF the soap
suds on wash days than to first scrub the
pigs. III not too many of them, and then
pour it along the celery rows. Soapsuds
make an excellent fertilizer for both celery
and asparagus.
The Dorset is q horned bred of sheep
which has been preserved intact for long
time, chiefly IN Dorset and Somerset
shires, in the south of England. The ORR
ginal sheep was much smaller in size than
the improved Dorsets of to-day.
wood ashes placed in the hog pen will pre-
vent many ills arising from indigestion in
hogs. The charcoal should be fresh. Old
charcoal may be renewed by heating it in
the stove for a few minutes.
The free use OF insect powder in the
stables will greatly lessen the annoyance to
stock from flies, bnt the stalls and floors
should be kept clean. busting the legs of
horses with carbolate of lime will aid in
preventing attacks from insects.
Store beets, carrots, psrsnips and turnirs
IN bins in the cellar, aud pack them in dry
sand or earth, and they Will keep well tor
winter use. This method will enable the
farmer to.use them at any time which will
not be the case If they be stored in mounds
in the open air.
In using tarrd paper for roofs consider
aticn must be given to the fact that unless
the paper be securely fastened 30 that the
wind cannot get under it the roof Will be
eaisly destroyed during the prevalence of a
very high wind. Paper roofs are excellent,
provided they can be properly put on.
Sassafras Is q nuisance in any field, but
it cannot be destroyed very easily except
by grnbbing it out-removing all the roots.
Being hardy and persistent plant 1t must
be killedssin its younger stages. Ifallowed
to oveIrun field it will entail nearly IS
much labor as is required TO clear new
land from brush.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-31
Farm Notes.

The color of pure Devon cattle is red,
rying from a rich dark to q pale chest
nut
Beasts with small chests do not fatten
readily and are very susceptible to dis
ease.
Carefully ''hand-pick" the garden seeds
you saved last season, saving only the per-
feet ones.
One of the most profitable ways of ap-
plying ashes is sowing them broadcast over
newly seeded ground.
1t il mistake to suppose that sour, fer
mented slop for hogs is better than fresh
mixture that is sweet and clean.
SuDhower seed Is often fed to poultry,
but if too much be given it will cause the
feathers to fall of, as 1t promotes early
Noting.
All animals should have an allowance of
linseed meal at least twice q week, as it will
regulate the bowels and prevent "hide-
bound"
Although it is supposed that the hog eats
anything, yet 1t rejects many grasses and
weeds that are readily eaten by sheep and
cattle.
The latest mode. of whitevashing out
buildings Is to have the whitewash thin in
consistency and force 1t on the walls with
force pump.
A free sprinkling OF finely sifted wood
ashes on turnips Will assist in preventing
| the attacks of the fly, aud will also serve
as an excellent fertilizer.
Ripe cantaleups will easily become de-
tached from the vines, while green ones
must be pulled off. They cannot always
be known to be ripe by the appearance.
Rotation in crops is the surest and safest
plan in farming, and when one or two
years of pasture shall be included in the
rotation the benefits will be still greater.
The successful establishment of cream.
cries and cheese factories in Mississippi and
other Southern States has given new i'm
petus to dairy interests in the South.
If weeds have grown to q great height
and cannot be plowsd under. NOW them
down before they seed. After they shall
have been we'll dried rake them up and
burn them in a pile.
Where the strawberry vines are ihickly
matted in the rows the weeds should b.
hand-pulled. The strawberry does not vel
endure dry weather, and the weeds rob To,
the plants of both food and moisture.
QThe annual honey crop is about 10O, Oo1
600 pounds, and its value is probably asou
$4,000 COO This would give for the an
nual value OF the production OF honey and
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straws. Chemically the biscuits were not
nutritively richer than hay, while in point
of digestibility they were inferior. In case
of cavalry when cam paigning, where
economical rations are desirable, there
would be required forty-one pounds of the
oat-sawdust cake-more If of bran-to
equal ten pounds of hay and the ssame
weight of oats. Now horses when on the
war-path must be laden with as few heavy
weights as possible. The weight of the
cakes could be reduced by dessication and
volume by the introduction of some
highly concentrated aliment. The biscuits
should be estimated at the same value as
that of medium hay. Sswdust can be eaten
without danger by horses. The omnibus
company, when they employed that sub
stance for litter, never prevented the
horses from eating it-that which did them
no harm. In Sweden, very eae larch saw
dust is employed with advantage, instead
of chopped straw, and mixed with sliced
mangolds for bullocks and dairy stock.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-31
Ksep Potatoes Clean.

Clean culture Is one of the first consid-
erations in the cultivation of any crop. but
the potato seems to be peculiarly sucepti-
BILE to the injurious influence of weeds. A
field may be growing in great luxurisnce
and give promise OF bountlful harvest,
but IL weeds are allowed to grow and con-
tinue their hold upon the soil about tie
time the potatoes come to blossoming, or
when the little tubers begin to set, the
chances are that the crop will be very
largely diminished, not only in quantity,
but in size. While an excess OF moisture
might be ipjurious. the potato is plant
that requires . certain amount of mos sure
for the proper development OF its tubers,
and the presence of weeds is sure to cause
q elimination of moisture. besides ex-
haustion of fertilizi1g material. If, there
fore, the best success in the cultivation oil
potatoes is desired, they must be kept
clean.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-31
He Felt Grateful.
Merchant Travelled

The hammock squeaked unheeded as 1t
rubbed the bark off the old mans favorite
sycamore tree.
Gertrude" he said, shave you ever felt
that your heart beat responsive TO that Of
anotberP
81 haye, George" owned up Gertie, and
her head nestled on b is shoulder.
ibid you ever feel that your destiny was
so linked to that of another that it was
useIess to try to follow it out alone?"
Yes George" returned Gertie, as she
nestled some more.
Gertrude, will ask you more plainly.
Do you love me?'
81 will not attempt, George, to conceal
my feelings. do"
''Well," said George. sliding out of the
hammock, ''Pm glad to hear that, because
WIN Tompkins bet me box of cigars. the
other day, that you were jest INDUCING in
little Irritation. / am really much
obliged to you for the assurance, and"
But Gertie had gone into the house and
slammed the door with all her might.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-31
THE FARM AND FIELD
Rstrcspsction-Itslian Bsss--Lb,ut Watering
Honss--Kssp Paiataas Clean.
sawdust Fodder-Pawpaw Tree Bark
Raising Onions-Biack SIM ut In Corn
Household Htnss-Farm Notes.
Retrospection,
IChieaOo Timaa1

1t was the golden summer time
When farmers gather in the sheaves
And swallows twitter round the caves;
When daisies.lift their starry crowns
and zephyrs whisper to the leaves
Loud words of love, and every breeze
Watts perfume sweet DER all the land.
Oft when the vest ", vas fair fair to see,
In golden glory deeply dyed
And fringed with orient amethyst
Ger murmuring waves we'd gently glide,
And, later, floating with the tide,
Watch twilight deepen into night.
He.spoke of life and all il means:
He told me of his hopes, his fears,
And what he thought the coming years
Might bring to him II he were true.
His voice 30 soft. and deep, and clear,
Fell ike sweet music In my ear
Has every word to me was dear.
The moon rose slowly DER the hill,
And flooded all the ssene with light.
The many voices OF the night
Scarce broke the feeling stiffness round,
The waves In SILVER liveries digit.
Each crowned with plumes of snowy white,
Danced to the music OF the spheres.
Thus as the summer days flew by
We idly strolled through moon lit aisle,
LOr from some quaintly-fas hi0ned stile
We saw the sun In grandeur rise,
And II never guessed the while
That in the loYe-lig OF his smile
! lived and knew no other life.
And IL We never meet again
It may be that God wills IL so:
1t Is not given to man to know
The good or III in store for him.
k8tin through my life Will ever flow
4The current warmed by loves deep glow
c, E. RAYMOND.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-31

If the stomach of the horse were more
fully understood its feeding would be more
carefully attended to. The benefit that
comes from food comes through the pro-
cess Of digestion that is carried on In the
stomach, and even while the process of
feeding is going on. Ia comparison with
1t is claimed that the stomach OF the OK
has q capacity of $50 quarts, while that OF
the horse is only about sixteen quarts; so,
Is consequence. whatever is in the stom-
ach after il is filed must be expelled into
the intestines if feeding is continued. In
that case, If the process OF digestion is in
complete the result is an expulsion of the
food without serving the pur pose for which
1t is intended. For that reason, in the use
OF concentrated food in connection with
coarse fodder, there must be an exercise
of judgment or the feeding Will do little
good. Thus oats may be fed to q horse
and followed by hay to such an extent as
to expel the oats wholly from the stomach,
in which case the only benefit derived is
from the amount OF digestion going on
during this period of eating. The Office of
the stomach being to digest the nitrogen
Gus portion OF the food, and as a stomach
full OF oats contains about four or five
filled with hay, either the stomach must
secrete its gastric juice five times as fast
or the period OF digestion must be five
times as long. If concentrated food like
oats is to be fed with hay the latter should
be fed first and then the grains, thus giving
ample time for digestion between eeding
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-31
Agricultural Advancem emit.

Some of the younger states of our Union
are doing an important work for the ad.
vancement of agriculture within their
borders. This Is especially true of Mime
sofa, as casual perusal of the report Of
the Department of Agriculture of the State
University most fully sttests. This report
contains numerous lectures delivered at
the university In what Is termed the
farmers course, of q character calculated
to benefit the farmer to the fullest degree
possible. This idea of educating farmers
by means OF popular lectures is becoming
a sort of necessity, and has q strong ten
dency to uproot and destroy the preju-
dices that have been 30 great against book
or.sciepfi6c farming. The better informed
of our class are coming to realize the great
importance Of making an application Of
all the principles Of science that are posi-
BILE in their chosen occupations. In the
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-31
RAILWAYS PILLS.

The Great Liver and Stomach Remedy.
Perfectly sasteless, elegantly coated Wltn
sweet gum, purge, regulate, purify, cleanse and
strengthen. RAILWAYS PILLS, for the cure o.
kidneys, Rlsdder, Nervous Diseases, Coussipt'
ton, Cogtiveness, Indigestion. Dyspepsia. BIZ.
iousnegs, Fever, Inflammation of the B1wels.
PileF. and sll arrangements d the internal VS.
csrs. Purely vegetable, containing DO mercu'
~. minerals. or deleterious drugs.
Price IS cents per box. Sold by all druggists.
Dyspepsia.
The symptoms Of this disease are the symp-
toms of a broken-dowh stomach. Indigestion
Flatulency, heartburn, Acid Stomacn, Pain
after thanksgiving rise sometimes 70 the most
excruciating Ceric-PyrOsis or Water Brash, ETC.,
etc.
RAILWAYS sARsAPARIL.LIAN, aided BY
Railways Pills, Is a cure for this complaint. IL
restores strength to the stomach and makes IL
perform its functions. Take the medicine A.
cordiug to directions and observe what We say
in "False and True" respecting ii.
Dyspepsia with Palpttat1on.
BLACK RIVER, n. E.-Dr Radwsy-DEAR SIN:
have for years been troubled with Dyspepsia
. and Palpitation of the Heart, and found but
little RELIEF until tried your Pills snd Resolv-
snt, and they cured me. Yours truly,
Dyspepsia OF Ions Standing Cared.
DE- RAILWAY: 1 have tor many yesrs been 81.
6lcled with Dyspelsia ana Liver Complaint and
found but little relief until got your Pills and
Retolvent and they made erfect cure They
Your friend forever, WILLIAM EooNAN.
BLkHoHABD, Mich.
TO THE PUBLIC.
Be mrs and ask tor RADwAY'a, and 80 thse
Tie pans "RADwky" 4 sniNhH epcuys
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-31
Black smut I'm Corn,

In some localities the black smut in
corn is often the cause of serious loss 1t
is worst on land where this crop has been
planted several years in succession, show
soil where they fall. 1t IS a fungus hard
to get rid of where it has foothold. The
ears or stalks affected will be found early
bursting with sap. and as the spores have
not yet ripened so as to become easily de-
tached, these diseased specimens may be
removed without much danger of spread
ing the infection. Later in the season the
fungus bursts, and its black dust is scat
tered by winds, whence it gets on the
stalks and into the manure pile.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-31
He wouldn't DO In Detroit.
lOmaha World

Detroit maiden-Papa says shall never
marry suca specimen Of L u-- Aoity as
you. Amt he horrid2
Omaha Youth-WBat in creation has
got into your father sll,of a sudden? Last
Sunday, when went 10 your church, he
was particularly kind, and told me aiasys
to come into his pew.
"Yes. but ycl went to the base ball
game In the aftsrDoou?"
"Great Cesar, How did he fiud that
eut?'
"Hs vas there himself, and said he
knew from the scratches you applauoed
tsstvu hadn't the first idea about the
game"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-31
Remedy for Cabbage Worm,

The number of remedies for this disgust
ing pest are almost without number, many
OF which are entirely Intellectual. A trial
of new remedy seems to be of such a
character as to recommend it to use. 1t
consists of sleeping a tablespoonful Of
ground cloves in q quart of water AID
sprinkling upon the plants with a brush
broom. So far it has proved entirely eff 90
tual, bat may fail in its continuance. Ii
it holds out as well as it has com menced it
will be worth remembering, for the reason
that it is quite simple, inexpensive, aud
easily applied in the manner indicated.
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IL Made Her Weary.
lDetroit Free Press

A reporter was standing at the eonfec-
tioneTy counter of prominent grocery
yesterdaytwhe a burly man came In, and
addressing one ofthe young woman behind
the counter, said:
give ms pound OF your best"
Taking a look at tue girl be made q dash
for the door, looked up aud down the street
and returning with satisfied expression,
concluded:
-'your best m 'xed candy"
After he had received and paid for his
candy and gone out, the clerk said with
pout:
"Tbst makes me tired. He Is the TWEEN
tietb 10 -dsy, II there has been one"
"wby did he 60 out2" asked the re-
porter.
ITO look for q white horse"
Her hair Is little On the red.
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report mentioned the ladies are not neg
lected nor forgotten, as 1t contains a COM
economy and cookery by Miss Juliet Cor
SON. This lie important; while the farmers
and farmers sons are being educated, the
wives and daughters should not be neg
lected nor forgotten, but they too should
be elevated in their sphere in the more
necessary duties of the household, and the
means of rendering the home beautiful
and desirable.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-31
Raising Ontona.


Mr.. Thompson, OF East Rockport. Oat.,
writes to the Detroit Free Press: In SOW
ing the onion seed have always tried to
get in as early in the spring as possible,
even in March, If the ground can be
worked. found last year, and this year
also, that the first sown were the first to
mildew. The best fertilizer or onions is
wLod ashes, at the rate of one hundred
bushels to the acre, unleached. The soil
best adapted is a loose mucky bottom land.
though the largest onions / ever raised
were on stiff clay, which had been seeded
down to timothy for five years, and then
plowed 1p in the fall, and given heavy
dressing Of manure, well worked in, and /
then applied wood ashes at the rate of two
hundred bushels to the acre. The season
was wet and it was Just fun to see how
those onions grew. The onion raised prin-
cipally raised from seed in our location is
the yellow Danvers- The principal variety
for market to be punched is the Egyptian"
or winter onion. As perhaps a great many
are unacquainted with this variety, will
say just few words about it. 1t is planted
in the fall from sets and used for punching
green very late in the fall or early in the
spring. They never make large
bottoms, but Just small straight
onions, used to eat green. When they grow
larger they can be used for cooking. They
/
out can be raised IN the same place for
years without resetting. But the better
way is along in the latter part of July to
cut of the sets which grow on top, then
take a scythe and NOW all off close to the
ground. Dig mp the old onions, or bot
toms as we call them, and plant them IN
rows from twelve to fifteen inches about
/ three inches deep and about two inches
| apart in the row. They will grow stronger
and make earlier onions for punching than
the smaller sets. The sets run in size from
pea to hickory nut, and grow in
punches, which must be picked apart
They will stand any amount OF freezing
| and even in winter, when we have a few
warm days, will start to grow. They grow
very rapidly II on good ground. The rich
er the soil, the faster they grow. Wher
once planted, they are very hard to kill
unless dug out. II plowed under they arr
pretty sure to grow through. Auothe
onion. which raise from seed, / find very
valuable. This is o red onion, and is very
mild. My neighbors say they are no
strong at all. A great many people VIII,
have tried these onions for table use ar
willing to pay double the price OF yelloy
DaDvers onions, and they are a Iittl
earlier.
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Veterinary Professor Samson has analysed
and reported upon the cakes or biscuits
having sawdust for base, intended as food
for cattle, and horses in particular. 1t is
an aliment not new to Germany. This ali
ment has for chief ingredient very fine
red sswdust. acted upon by muristic acid
IA powerful digesting agent. The CAKES
sre thin, eight to ten inches in diameter,
and weigh about one pound. In two sam
pies the biscuit was mixed with bran and
oats. No one of course expects that saw.
dust alone could be utilized IS food; Ii is
200 poor In protein, but 1t can act by "bal-
1t the required volume for working.
then enter into com petition with inferior